School: Liscarbin (roll number 13697)

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1. Local Place Names (continued)

   

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   129 to see if there were any priests hiding there. The soldier who went down lived to come up but died immediately after. A field behind the school is called the "Dead man's field" because a man died there during the Famine and was buried there.

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2. Bird-Lore

   

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   Bird Lore.
   Told by Dan Earley, Edanavow.

   There are many wild birds around here - the crane, the black bird, thrush, robin, hawk, crow, mag-pie, willie-wagtail, sparrow, the yellow-hammer, wild geese, and swans.

   When the swans roar on the loch it is the sign of storm. When the robins fly around the door-step a storm is approaching, when the willie-wagtail hops on the street, when the wild geese fly in the shape of the Alphabet a storm is approaching, when the crows flies low going home, when the crane goes to the bog it is a sign of rain, when the seagulls fly inland, when the black-bird chirp very loudly it is also a sign of rain. When the crane goes to the mountain it is a sign of good-weather.

   A thrush builds in a white thorn bush. She

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